“The best way the Commission can stimulate broadband is not
by imposing new layers of regulation, but by adopting a deregulatory stimulus
in which government-created entry barriers are eliminated and costly
regulations are reduced. Marketplace investment and private enterprise have
driven broadband deployment in the United States, and the Commission
would be wise to expand proven, market-driven broadband policies.”

“General Motors and Chrysler would have been better off if
they had filed for bankruptcy last year, rather than taking federal money,
since the bailouts have come with costly political strings attached, such as dropping
opposition to costly CAFE regulations and other federal mandates, and bowing to
political meddling in fundamental corporate decision making, and have left the
automakers with higher labor costs than if they had just ripped up their
collective bargaining agreements in a standard bankruptcy. That endangers their
long-run competitiveness. Indeed, the politicized auto bailouts resemble the
failed British auto bailouts of the 1970s.”

“Introduce ‘grow and trade’ programs for
fisheries. These programs, also called Individual Transferable Quotas, have
seen fish stocks recover and thrive in areas as far apart as Iceland and New Zealand. They encourage
responsible management of fisheries rather than overfishing. Also, conclude an
international agreement to end subsidies for deep-sea fishing. Research from
the environmental organization Oceana has shown that most deep-sea fishing
would be uneconomic without these subsidies. Government action is
therefore contributing to environmental degradation.”